‘The best I can do this year is gold medal in the Olympics,’ says Bednarek after storming to 19.67 World Lead in Doha

Olympics 200m silver medalist, Kenny Bednarek has set his sight on going a step further in Paris at the Olympics as he aims to swap his silver of three years ago for gold this time.

The American stormed to a 19.67 world lead to win the 200m event at the Doha Diamond League meeting on Friday and says his target now is the gold.

‘I knew what I was gonna run, I won the world lead, I was just hoping that the weather would work with us and that is what it did so when I crossed the finish line I saw the time I didn’t know if it was the lead, they wanted to hand me the lead sign, I knew I did it.

‘I knew I was in a good shape because my teammates would push me on practice. We are happy for each other, I am happy for them, they are happy for me, that is all that matters. It is just love.

‘The best I can do this year is gold medal in the Olympics, I did it in Tokyo, I know I have the talent and good training. Running this fast this early is really good, it means I will be fast by the time we start the Olympics.

‘Time doesn’t matter, my main focus is not the time, but competing and making sure we get the job done. The next race may be in Los Angeles, I am not sure, I have been running lot of back to back races.

‘Fear No One’ is the message on today´s headband I’m wearing. I have a special headband with me for every single track event, I give it to the other competitors, we try to have a great time,’ said Bednarek in his post race comments.